Definition of "grave" in English

noun

1. (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

2. (loosely) Any place of interment.

3. (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.

4. (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.

5. (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

   • a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem" This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"

3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

   • to grave an image

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

adjective

1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.

2. Low in pitch, tone etc.

3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

4. (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)

5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.

noun

1. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.

noun

1. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.

noun

1. (obsolete) A kilogram.